Follow on from ESA moon caving robot thread.

https://www.space.com/europe-moon-cave-exploration-ideas.html

Do you think i could successfully present myself as an expert in machine vision, despite having no qualifications other than a healthy hatred of every machine vision presentation on TV that i’ve ever seen?

I ask because it would scare the shit out of me to land a multi-hundred thousand dollar research contact from the European Space Agency.

The machine vision project i’m thinking of could be titled “A three tier zero-weight and minimal-weight laserless 2-D and 3-D mapping system for caves in full colour”.

I’m even less likely to get funding for my other potential research suggestion. Which could be titled “moving giant rocks using an endoscope, fishing net and winch”. I’d have to pretend to be a robotics expert for that one.

I think i’m relatively safe with the second one.

k no w

“Do you think i could successfully present myself as an expert in machine vision, despite having no qualifications other than a healthy hatred of every machine vision presentation on TV that i’ve ever seen?”

no

dv said:

“Do you think i could successfully present myself as an expert in machine vision, despite having no qualifications other than a healthy hatred of every machine vision presentation on TV that i’ve ever seen?”

no

Thank you.

No, I won’t say no.

The Rev Dodgson said:

No, I won’t say no.

First proposal submitted.

Very nicely, it gives me the choice of whether i want to do the work myself, or to get someone in ESA to do it for me. For first machine vision proposal I’ve said I’ll do the work myself. For the keyhole surgery + fishing net + in-air refuelling + 4WD winching project there is no way in hell that I could do the work myself.

I don’t get it. I tried to put in a second proposal, and got a totally different form that requires me to specify in advance, for example, to name which European subcontractors I will use and how much they will charge for doing the work.

Where’s the original form disappeared to?

Give up?

mollwollfumble said:

I don’t get it. I tried to put in a second proposal, and got a totally different form that requires me to specify in advance, for example, to name which European subcontractors I will use and how much they will charge for doing the work.

Where’s the original form disappeared to?

Give up?

Maybe you have progressed to the second stage already.

Where they find out how much you are chipping in.

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

I don’t get it. I tried to put in a second proposal, and got a totally different form that requires me to specify in advance, for example, to name which European subcontractors I will use and how much they will charge for doing the work.

Where’s the original form disappeared to?

Give up?

Maybe you have progressed to the second stage already.

Where they find out how much you are chipping in.

That’s what worried me.

Got it now. It’s the Lunar Cave Rover project that requires the European subcontractors cost.

There’s a separate page for general purpose novel research proposals which I found by going back in my web history.